STUDIO 77

Illustrator, cartoonist & calligraphic artist

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artiston various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artistandspot illustratoron pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

ForMARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as arestoration artistfor MARVEL U.S., restoring and recreating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Image Enlargement:

In a few instances some images are featured at full size (or larger) to begin with, so clicking is redundant.

Copyright Notice:

Images remain the property of their respective copyright owners and are used here only for the purpose of review, promotion, and nostalgia.

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In the case of images culled from my own collection where copyright of an item isn't mine, I impose no copying restrictions on fellow bloggers.

(Although, if you don't allow copying on your own site, then you really shouldn't be copying from others, should you?)

And while you can credit this blog if you like, it's not mandatory. Who has time to make notes of every casually visited site during an idle browse of the internet?

In the case of anyone copying images of my own artwork and calligraphy, I affirm my right to be identified as the creator, and any such copying should not be for the purpose of monetary or material gain. (Unless it's mine.)

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The Truth:

Regarding a certain Blogger'slies, he is the one who initiated insulting and abusive comments in a 'trivial disagreement' on his Blog, and, elsewhere, once issued what amounted to a 'come and have a go if you think you're hard enough' challenge - yet he has the cheek to call me 'aggressive'.

Furthermore, he has used Blogs and Twitter sites to impugn my character, and disseminate distortions and untruths about me. He has a track record when it comes to initiating disputes with others and has been banned from at least two Blogs because of it.

I've exposed his lies before (which he alters or deletes when confronted), so kindly regard his untruths and misrepresentations as the malicious falsehoods they are. His claims of having a 'long memory' and his 'archiving' of some of my posts reveal just how sad and obsessional he is.

As for his claim that I'm banned from a forum (the same one on which he has been accused of being a bully), I resigned from said forum and declined an invitation from the site owner to return - and I still have the emails to prove it. Despite being aware of this he continues to misrepresent the facts of the situation in his Blog's 'response' (mis-named as it actually pre-dates this one), thus robbing himself of even the slightest credibility - something he is seemingly too stupid to realise.

His ridiculous claim that I have deleted some posts to 'downplay' my 'aggression' is a completely fanciful misrepresentation of my having removed posts which had served their purpose, so as to avoid perpetuating animosity between us. In response to his lies, I have since restored most of them, and any I've overlooked, if he'd like to supply me with copies from his 'screen grabs', I'll happily repost them.